Prince Harry's surprise appearance in London to his father's coronation ceremony on May 6.
Prince Harry, known for his fight against the British tabloid press, made a surprise appearance, March 27, at a court hearing against the Daily Mail in London, six weeks before his father's coronation.
Since he and his wife, the former American actress Meghan Markle, shook the monarchy by announcing that they were leaving their official duties and went to live in California in 2020, the prince, 38, has traveled to the United Kingdom on rare occasions that always wake up strong expectation.
This morning, to everyone's surprise, the Sky News television channel showed images in which he was seen getting out of a taxi and entering the London courthouse, where the High Court is located.
There, in a hearing that is expected to last four days, the Daily Mail's publishing group, Associated Newspapers, is trying to have a case brought against it by several celebrities who accuse it of illegally collecting information.
Six plaintiffs, led by Harry, singer Elton John and actress Liz Hurley, claim that this newspaper used detectives to listen to their conversations, either in their cars or at his home.
When the lawsuit was announced in early October, Associated Newspapers completely and unequivocally refuted these absurd slanders.
The prince's surprise appearance in London comes just over a month before his father's coronation ceremony on May 6.
He and Meghan, who remain Dukes of Sussex although since 2020 they cannot use their titles of royal highnesses or officially represent the British monarchy, were invited to the ceremony, which will be held with great pomp at Westminster Abbey, in the center in London, in the presence of dozens of heads of state and government and representatives of monarchies from around the world.
However, it has not yet been officially confirmed if they will attend.
They were last seen publicly in the UK at the funeral of Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, last September.
Their eventual return to the country has been the subject of much speculation in British newspapers in recent months, following the couple's virulent attacks on the royal family.
In December, Netflix aired a six-part documentary titled Harry & Meghan in which they settle accounts with the British media and with members of the royal family, especially William, Harry's older brother and heir to the throne, 40, whose press team accused of having turned public opinion against them.
Then, in January, Harry published a controversial memoir that, under the title Spare, recounted sordid details of his life within the British royal family and his bad relationships with his father and brother. .
Traumatized since adolescence by the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a traffic accident in Paris in 1997 when she was being chased by the paparazzi, Harry argued against the unbearable pressure from the tabloid press to leave the monarchy.
Claiming that Meghan, who is mixed-race, had been the subject of racist attacks and death threats on social media, he said he did not want to see her mother's story repeated.
The couple, who have two children, Archie, 3 years old, and Lilibet, 1 year old, launched several lawsuits against British tabloids whom they accuse of having violated their right to privacy.
